Update on Hem Press Christmas opening hours: hempress.substack.com/p/hem-press-...

Update on Hem Press Christmas opening hours: hempress.substack.com/p/hem-press-...

Having a distributor would greatly help Hem Press as the time it takes our hard working editor to package orders and go to the post office isn't insubstantial, yet we've had really bitter experiences trying to get this set up through normal channels. Does anyone know of any options we could use?

Hem's editor, on looking through his harddrive, realised he holds all the free digital releases the late, great, Timglaset Editions published. Reach out if these are of interest to you!

Hem's editor, on looking through his harddrive, realised he holds all the free digital releases the late, great, Timglaset Editions published. Reach out if these are of interest to you!

Hem Press has just launched a new imprint! /plex editions publishes free eBooks as PDFs. These can be downloaded and circulated across peer groups at the leisure of readers. Check it out! www.hempressbooks.com/shop/plex-ed...

Hem Press has just launched a new imprint! /plex editions publishes free eBooks as PDFs. These can be downloaded and circulated across peer groups at the leisure of readers. Check it out! www.hempressbooks.com/shop/plex-ed...

Includes a sneak announcement about our next release... hempress.substack.com/p/new-at-hem...

Hem Press is now giving away ephemera with book purchases! Check it out! www.hempressbooks.com/ephemera

Having a distributor would greatly help Hem Press as the time it takes our hard working editor to package orders and go to the post office isn't insubstantial, yet we've had really bitter experiences trying to get this set up through normal channels. Does anyone know of any options we could use?

Includes a sneak announcement about our next release... hempress.substack.com/p/new-at-hem...

Hem Press is now giving away ephemera with book purchases! Check it out! www.hempressbooks.com/ephemera

Happy Halloween! www.hempressbooks.com/shop/p/denma...

Hem Press' response to @prototypepubs.bsky.social open letter: hempress.substack.com/p/a-response...

Off to post some incredible books!

Checking stock this afternoon reminded us just how brilliant Ali Graham is...

Off to post some incredible books!

Checking stock this afternoon reminded us just how brilliant Ali Graham is...

Hem Press' editor had the great pleasure of sitting down with Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social to talk about bpNichol! You can watch it here (due to a technical mishap, you only see Gregory's screen). www.youtube.com/watch?v=md6-...

Hem Press' editor had the great pleasure of sitting down with Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social to talk about bpNichol! You can watch it here (due to a technical mishap, you only see Gregory's screen). www.youtube.com/watch?v=md6-...

This libel has been circulating online for months now. Bad Betty are infamous only for their professionalism. Hem's editor has worked with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in varying capacities over the years. HLR is a personal friend of Hem's editor. The others cited are respected poets.

#SealeyChallenge- Days 17 & 18 These seemed to speak to each other or make a connection somehow with their layers of voices, ideas and narratives. Day 17 Rupert Loydell's 2011 Shearsman Books collection, Wildlife. Day 18 is Nikki Dudley 's Hem Press collection Exorcism Becomes Habit from 2023

Following the UK's new data laws about adult content, why not buy some contemporary erotic poetry by @amandaearl.bsky.social from the Hem Press store? www.hempressbooks.com/shop

Anyhow if you haven't already here's the part where I tell you you should buy a copy from the excellent @hempressbooks.bsky.social:

Following the UK's new data laws about adult content, why not buy some contemporary erotic poetry by @amandaearl.bsky.social from the Hem Press store? www.hempressbooks.com/shop

Initial emails were replied to. The contact at Elgin was delayed in responding. Other Elgin contacts DMed Hem Press authors. These comms were also replied to. @juleigh.bsky.social I do not expect this to be raised publicly, especially before eligibility has been confirmed and announced. [1/2]

I’m starting a poetry reading and reviewing challenge from now until October. And what better choice for my first book than ‘Exorcism Becomes Habit’ by @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social published by @hempressbooks.bsky.social. You can read the review here: leiabutler.com/2025/05/29/e...

An Update on Hem Press hempress.substack.com/p/an-update-...

Revisiting this podcast interview Hem Press' editor did with Ali Graham. Good times! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zel6...

#FF It’s National Hot Tub Day! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these folks in the lit community beginning with “H”: @hapterapress.bsky.social @hauntpublishing.bsky.social @haydensferryreview.bsky.social @headlightant.bsky.social @hempressbooks.bsky.social @hollowoakpress.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

It was a joy to blurb Leia's new book from Steel Incisors!

THREAD Hem Press' most recent release is Medea Redux/Hares on the Mountain by Ali Graham. Medea Redux/Hares on the Mountain creates narratives and counter-narratives through a selection of sources, among them the titular myth, Fred Moten and Pasolini. [Cont.]

Continuing our showcase of Hem Press titles! An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun by Maria Sledmere drifts between dream memoir, jumpcut verse and psychedelic fiction. Milk by Briony Hughes redefines the body through lyric poetry, found language and visual texts. Available from hempressbooks.com/shop

Chicago friends: Copies of my book DENMARK: Variations are now available at @quimbysbookstore.bsky.social in Wicker! A collection of sixty sets of instructions for variations on the play Hamlet, from the impossible to the unlikely to the illegal. @hempressbooks.bsky.social

My #LiftToTheSky today is brilliant @brihughespoet.bsky.social for championing small poetrypresses & whose own work is thrillingly innovative & full of complex subtleties @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @hempressbooks.bsky.social @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social (pic) #RHUL @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Great audience for last night's @hempressbooks.bsky.social takeover event w/thanks to @brihughespoet.bsky.social and to Hem editor Richard Capener. I performed a sound piece through a gag (bandage) and continued my exploration of waste. Great chats with people afterwards!

London! This is tonight!

Hem Press authors!!! London!!! 21st January!!!

At the edge of the world, Someone will explain. I believe this. I Know I will live to experience all I cannot bear And I hate when the world gets me so ashamed Ali Graham, Medea Redux / Hares on the Mountain, from @hempressbooks.bsky.social

After months, due to Amazon, this was finally delivered to Hem Press HQ. @whatisapoem.bsky.social

London! The @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover kicks off with this event featuring @hempressbooks.bsky.social poets @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social @brihughespoet.bsky.social & me (see angrystarlings.bandcamp.com/album/echolo...) I'll be sharing some new sound stuff & new text poetry.

Hem Press authors!!! London!!! 21st January!!!

If you like narrative verse, visual poetry, experimental lyric, hybrid fiction, memoir and sound poetry, then check out the Hem Press store! Hempressbooks.com/shop

A happy and blessed 2025 to Hem Press readers and our wider creative networks!